T.O.G.O Dansorkester, Stompin The Blues. Sweden 1928

T.O.G.O Dansorkester, Stompin The Blues. Sweden 1928

I "stole" the information about the band from my friend scala78 (please look at his uploads)

The T.O.G.O Orchestra (The Original Green Orchestera) was one of the first swedish bands trying to adopt the new modern rhythm of the twenties. The Band was formed 1924 by young students (one of them Sven Arefeldt only fifthteen shold become one of the greetest orchester leaders in Sweden) They were playing at differnt restaurants but also at the oceanliner M/S Gripsholm wich also was going for The States.
T.O.G.O. made their first recordings in 1928 for HMV (four records) There after, they where contracted by swedish Imperial and made other recordings, but with little jazz influence. The orchestera was sort of semiproffesional and many of later wellknown swedish musicians have pased trough T.O.G.O in there young years . The orchestera was led by Claes Levijn and was working with different member still until 1950.